The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 59Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1862 |
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We cannot resist copying the following mental soliloquy which one of the ablest critics of the day pronounces ' one of the grandest pæans ever sent up from the altar of the human heart , since the days of inspiration .
We cannot resist copying the following mental soliloquy which one of the ablest critics of the day pronounces ' one of the grandest pæans ever sent up from the altar of the human heart , since the days of inspiration .
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Arrest and cut off all that are anchored here ; strip the heart of the vain promptings which flutter around it : silence the busy whisperings of passion and self - love ; then tell me youth , man , maiden — what have we remaining ?
Arrest and cut off all that are anchored here ; strip the heart of the vain promptings which flutter around it : silence the busy whisperings of passion and self - love ; then tell me youth , man , maiden — what have we remaining ?
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... I'd know by the rushing of bird - wings , The drinkings of perfume sweet ; By the restless fall of the shadows , That out of the sunbeams roam , By the great joy in my heart , I'd know That the lane had led me home . " S U N .
... I'd know by the rushing of bird - wings , The drinkings of perfume sweet ; By the restless fall of the shadows , That out of the sunbeams roam , By the great joy in my heart , I'd know That the lane had led me home . " S U N .
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We were perfectly matched in strength , but my knife gave me the advantage ; it was very sharp , and I stabbed him three times to the heart , and then , in a delirium of anger , beat him on the head , with the heavy handle , till I was ...
We were perfectly matched in strength , but my knife gave me the advantage ; it was very sharp , and I stabbed him three times to the heart , and then , in a delirium of anger , beat him on the head , with the heavy handle , till I was ...
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But political convulsions drove it toward the East , and it returned pure perhaps at heart , but clothed in the robes of ineffable melancholy of the morbid and sickly Oriental . It came back with a hatred of joyousness and of beauty ...
But political convulsions drove it toward the East , and it returned pure perhaps at heart , but clothed in the robes of ineffable melancholy of the morbid and sickly Oriental . It came back with a hatred of joyousness and of beauty ...
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| Title | The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 59 The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Charles Fenno Hoffman |
| Editors | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew |
| Published | 1862 |
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